Crazy riders

**oldrider** · 8th May 2014, 11:54

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Get over yourselves !!!!

Who the fuck are you to comment on how others ride??? What arrogance you all display !!!

I did not tell anyone else how to ride I merely pointed out that there is a consequence! Read the fucking post again!

**Ribit** · 9th May 2014, 08:35

There's a green ninja that heads into town along the northwestern in the mornings that seems to be living on luck....
Most ninja riders seem to be crazy tho...(as per thread title)

**Banditbandit** · 9th May 2014, 08:52

Originally Posted by oldrider

I did not tell anyone else how to ride I merely pointed out that there is a consequence! Read the fucking post again!

My apologies - I was not aiming my remark at you at all. I am sorry I offended you.

**Banditbandit** · 9th May 2014, 09:04

Originally Posted by 10bikekid

It was never about you (or was it)

On this occasion I got to see a birds eye view as a car driver of how motorcyclist can represent us.

As much as anything it was a good lesson for me to try to take it easier and not put innocent motorists at risk by stupid actions (as this guy did on this occasion)

Again not sure why you are taking it personally and throwing the dummy out the cot and name calling like a school yard bully adds little weight or value to the discussion

PS, 40 years for me, raced in Motorcross etc offroad and Trackdays at Club level and Ridden well over 100.000ks in NZ onroad, perhaps you have done more but it wasn't completely a novices prospective that I was coming from, your motorcycle appendage may be bigger than mine ? but I don't think that's the point

Yeah - good chance it was about me and my riding style (I wasn't the one you saw - but there's a good chance I've done and still do, what you describe.)

Represent us? Shit - I don't claim to represent anyone but myself ... And I refuse to be represented by straights like you. My attitude unashamedly comes from the 1%er end of the biker spectrum while my riding style can be Speed Freak - a combination guaranteed to piss of people like you. (I'd ride a fucking loud Harley if they weren't so slow and handled like shit ...) That used to be called "showing class" where I come from - but then, I just know you're going to completely rubbish that ...

Put innocent motorists at risk ??? Fuck me ... that's a big call. And you can only know that if you know the skill level and ability of the rider - not by judging their actions (unless they are riding like a complete muppet).

40 years ? Yeah .. so the good chance did not pay off. I first rode a bike in 1972 ... and "done well over 100,000 on NZ roads' .. shit, I've done that in the last seven years alone (and can prove it from mileage readings on the bikes).

So get off your fucking high horse - for some of us riding bikes is complete rebellion - always has been and always will be - and some of us ride bikes deliberately to piss off the straight world ...

Accept that bikers range from crazy shits, to rebels, to straights ... and get on with your stuff ... (but then straights like you will never accept that - and that is what primarily makes you a straight ... and what amuses me most when I annoy the fuck out of you on the road .. )

**haydes55** · 9th May 2014, 10:22

I went to visit a lady friend the other weekend. Her mum was telling me about a motorbiker who had a death wish, overtook her and must have been going 150km/h or more then swerved back into their lane and almost fell off.

Just bit my tongue and tut tutted the situation to her.... Knowing full well I did that at least 3 or 4 times on the way to her house. To pick up her daughter and go for a ride.

The mother is still under the illusion I'm a nice guy.

**Oscar** · 9th May 2014, 10:43

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Represent us? Shit - I don't claim to represent anyone but myself ... And I refuse to be represented by straights like you. My attitude unashamedly comes from the 1%er end of the biker spectrum while my riding style can be Speed Freak - a combination guaranteed to piss of people like you. (I'd ride a fucking loud Harley if they weren't so slow and handled like shit ...) That used to be called "showing class" where I come from - but then, I just know you're going to completely rubbish that ...

Ahh...the myth of the motorcycle brotherhood.
I'm with you - I am not representative of other motorcyclists any more than I am a representative of all car drivers when I'm in my Falcon.

When I first started riding, it was almost all off road competition stuff, so I was always slightly baffled to be included in an amorphous "biker" group by other people.
In the last 15 years or so, I've done a lot more on road riding, and I have to say that other motorcycle users vary enormously in attitude, courtesy, skills and class (pretty much at the same proportion as car users).

I have to say though, the most annoying types are the over the top "live to ride" dicks like the OP, who seems to think he speaks for all of us.

**Latte** · 9th May 2014, 14:41

Anyone faster than me is an idiot, anyone slower than me is a pussy?

**awayatc** · 9th May 2014, 17:07

And the point is...............?

**10bikekid** · 9th May 2014, 22:45

Originally Posted by Oscar

Ahh...the myth of the motorcycle brotherhood.
I'm with you - I am not representative of other motorcyclists any more than I am a representative of all car drivers when I'm in my Falcon.

When I first started riding, it was almost all off road competition stuff, so I was always slightly baffled to be included in an amorphous "biker" group by other people.
In the last 15 years or so, I've done a lot more on road riding, and I have to say that other motorcycle users vary enormously in attitude, courtesy, skills and class (pretty much at the same proportion as car users).

I have to say though, the most annoying types are the over the top "live to ride" dicks like the OP, who seems to think he speaks for all of us.

Love it Oscar, specially the last bit

, though a little predictable.

For me I am always trying to slow myself down (like woo boy) as motorcycles can bring out the adrenalin horns very easy which I would have little issue with in a semi safe environment with the cloves being completely off on the circuit or a bike park but I think if you had seen what I witnessed you have been no more impressed either

**10bikekid** · 9th May 2014, 22:59

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Yeah - good chance it was about me and my riding style (I wasn't the one you saw - but there's a good chance I've done and still do, what you describe.)

Represent us? Shit - I don't claim to represent anyone but myself ... And I refuse to be represented by straights like you. My attitude unashamedly comes from the 1%er end of the biker spectrum while my riding style can be Speed Freak - a combination guaranteed to piss of people like you. (I'd ride a -------- loud Harley if they weren't so slow and handled like ----- ...) That used to be called "showing class" where I come from - but then, I just know you're going to completely rubbish that ...

Put innocent motorists at risk ??? ----- me ... that's a big call. And you can only know that if you know the skill level and ability of the rider - not by judging their actions (unless they are riding like a complete muppet).

40 years ? Yeah .. so the good chance did not pay off. I first rode a bike in 1972 ... and "done well over 100,000 on NZ roads' .. -----, I've done that in the last seven years alone (and can prove it from mileage readings on the bikes).

So get off your -------- high horse - for some of us riding bikes is complete rebellion - always has been and always will be - and some of us ride bikes deliberately to piss off the straight world ...

Accept that bikers range from crazy -----, to rebels, to straights ... and get on with your stuff ... (but then straights like you will never accept that - and that is what primarily makes you a straight ... and what amuses me most when I annoy the ----- out of you on the road .. )

I guess I must be getting Old then,

Had a Harley and was all that you said

In regard to annoying me on the road, that probably not likely though I wont chase someone into blind corners, am as quick as any of my Road racing buddies when I want to be

Have run at the front of Groups 1 2 & 3 at track days on various bike so am not averse to speed if required but again crazy on the road don't get my respect so much any-more.

**Banditbandit** · 12th May 2014, 09:32

Originally Posted by 10bikekid

I guess I must be getting Old then,

Me to mate. But that doesn't make me slow or intolerant ..

**oldrider** · 13th May 2014, 11:21

Avoid riding in groups ... you may team up with someone who has the same riding skills as yourself ... then you and everyone else is in real trouble!

**Katman** · 13th May 2014, 11:39

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Represent us? Shit - I don't claim to represent anyone but myself ... And I refuse to be represented by straights like you.

Originally Posted by Oscar

Ahh...the myth of the motorcycle brotherhood.
I'm with you - I am not representative of other motorcyclists any more than I am a representative of all car drivers when I'm in my Falcon.

You both seem to be missing the fact that it's the general public that are likely to see the actions of idiotic motorcyclists as representative of all motorcyclists - not other motorcyclists.

I laughed back at the time when we were fighting the ACC levy increases, when people here were saying that we need to get the support of the general public.

It's motorcyclists like those in the video who will ensure that we never have the support of the general public - if we should ever find ourselves in the position of having to fight TPTB imposing further draconian restrictions on us.